How Kong Handover Blinded Media to Story of the Decade (SCMP)

As the cream of the world’s foreign correspondents concentrated on topics like the fate of the last British policemen and the Happy Valley cemetery, a far more consequential event was about to upend the entire region. Exactly two decades ago, at the beginning of July, 1997, Asia was shaken by a seismic event that upended the established order and sent ripple effects still reverberating across the region even today – the Asian economic crisis that began on July 2, 1997. READ MORE

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